What to listen to this week? Here are the suggestions from our journalists.
“Higher also draws part of its power from its overall restraint. Yes, there are choruses on this record capable of packing a stadium, but above all something interior, inhabited, felt which makes a song with a hackneyed theme (What Am I Gonna Do, which speaks of drown a heartbreak) is still capable of transmitting a touching truth,” writes our journalist Alexandre Vigneault.
“Very catchy fourth album for the singer-songwriter whose precise and concise writing is that of good songmakers,” writes our journalist Josée Lapointe.
“Folk here is always strongly tinged with the instruments and rhythms that Eastern European music inspires, creating a fusion that one would recognize among a thousand, for very good reasons,” writes our journalist Marissa Groguhé.
“Angèle Dubeau and La Pietà return to Philip Glass for their new album, recently released by Analekta. A balanced program that has everything to charm fans of minimalist music,” writes Emmanuel Bernier.
Among all the new albums released recently, here are a few that caught our attention.